Senior Legal Officer
4Recruitment Services
- Coventry
- £26.35 per hour
- Contract
- Full-time
- Address the increased demand within the team and ensure that it can continue to deliver the work required of it, and
- Provide the necessary breathing space to undertake a wider review between legal and the service area to develop a longer, more sustainable permanent plan to address the capacity concerns.
- All aspects of Adult and Children’s social care, including safeguarding, assessment and care planning, charging, commissioning, policy creation and review, implementation of legislation, Judicial Review, complaints etc.
- The provision of legal support to children’s social care in respect of the pre-proceedings element of the Public Law Outline (PLO),
- The provision of legal support to children’s social care in respect of reports to the Court in connection with private law children’s proceedings,
- The provision of a duty advice service to both Adults and Children’s social care, education and schools,
- Support to the Adult Safeguarding Board and the Children Safeguarding Partnership and their respective sub-groups,
- Mental Health advice and support, including Displacement of Nearest Relative Proceedings,
- Mental Capacity advice and support, including Court of Protection proceedings, Deprivation of Liberty cases and support to the MCA Panel,
- Advice on support for those subject to immigration control, both adults and children, including advice on housing support, age assessment challenges and Judicial Review, Inquest work
- All aspects of Education work, including advice to schools but particularly SEN advice and support, and support for SEND Tribunals
- Officer support to Cabinet, committees etc.
- Delivering of training to client departments and others.
- Significant experience and knowledge of practices / methodologies of financial accounting, specifically within a local government context
- Experience in dealing with year-end budgets is essential.
- Excellent working knowledge of legislation and developments in local government finance
- Proven ability to give sound advice and guidance on a wider range cases, topics or issues
- Proven experience of working with Finance systems including Sage
- 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area
- 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme
- Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment